Solidarity Letters

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The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa)
representing over 17 million workers in 51 of the 55 African countries conveys her full solidarity
and support for the 27 September 2017 National Strike Action called by the Congress of South (...)

Dear Comrade President Wright and colleagues of the SLLC,
Our hearts reach out to you on the catastrophic mudslide in Freetown and the death, pain and suffering that has followed in its wake for the people of Sierra Leone.
We reach out in solidarity and sympathy at this time of national (...)

At the sideline of the AU-EU CSOs conference on Freedom of Expression, African CSOs reacted to the situation in Tanzania (read the statement). ITUC-Africa actively supported this statement as we contributed to its drafting and (...)

March 8, 2017
The Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU) salutes all working class women on this, their important day, International Women’s Day. This day comes at a very perilous and disturbing time in our country when women abuse, patriarchal and misogynistic attitudes are prevalent. (...)

It is with deep outrage that we heard the news about the bloody attack that hit the
University of Garissa in Kenya on 02 April, leading to the killing of 148 people, mostly
students and injury of many others. These brutal and senseless acts relate to barbarism of
another (...)

ITUC AFRICA

The World Social Forum has consolidated itself as an open space of horizontal and plural encounter for the democratic debate of ideas, the formulation of proposals, the free exchange of experiences and the articulation for effective actions by organizations and movements of the planetary civil (...)